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David was referrring to the identd daemon responds to an ident request and returns some information to the requestor. This is a feature used by some IRC servers. You should be able to turn off the identd daemon by commening out the appropriate line in /etc/inetd.conf. Then you should restart your inetd. In Red Hat, as root, "/etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd restart". SuSE users will find the init.d directory in /sbin. Evan S wrote: > It depends. Look in /etc/inetd.conf. When you kill inetd, all your services > listed in that file will stop. But, you do _not_ need inetd running. > > On 07-Sep-2000 David Lapointe wrote: > > I was still having problems with Netscape starting up really slow and popu > p > > warnings asking me to decide between removing the app and waiting for the > > save-yourself process to be found. > > > > This started after I put a residential gateway between my cable modem and > > my > > home LAN. Running the admin tool indicated just under 20 identd sessions > > going. > > > > I stopped the identd and voila , no more startup problems with Netscape. > > > > My question: do I need identd running? I suspect there is a problem with i > t > > and the residential gateway. > > > > > > > > -- > > .david > > David Lapointe > > - > > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). > > > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). > -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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